Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-24

Presidential carriage until the day of
Mr. Lincoln's death.
a guard has been set over the vault
in which Beecher's remains are depos>
tied.
Ed LangeteD, of Topeka, was fatally
stabbed in Kansas City saloon by one
Mcpherson.
The congressional apportioDment for
Philadelphia will be so arranged as to
give Randall district.
Captain Jas B Eads, just dead, has a
step-mother living in LapOrte, Ind, who
supports herself by sewing.
Rhode Island has renomir a. d oy ac-
clamation all her Republican state Off
cials for the spring campaign.
The Illinois House voted down a res
olution to submit prohibitory amend+
ment at the next general election.
The Dominion government has or
dered another cruiser of los tons as an
addition to the fisheries protection fleet.
The widow of President Polk keeps
all her husbands private effects In his
old office at Nashville. quite undisturbed.
Maj Charles n Blackburn, a brilliant
Cincinnati attorney and orator, has
changed his life and become an evan
gelist.
Frank NJ Scott. cashier of the publish
ing hUuse of Webster s. Co., New York,
has embezzled S3O,nOO of the concerns
money.
Ex-Gov Hoadly, of Ohio. and Edward
NJ Johnston, his partner, have been adj
mitted to practice law in the courts of
New York.
A lot of old printers. good workmen
all. some old soldiers, bave been dis
charged from the government printing
works. Washington.
The trustees of the Adams county, O.,
Orphans Home nave been removed by
the county commissioners on account
of charges of corruption.
Commissioner Montgomery, of the
Patent Office says he is harsssed by
applicants for employment, the most
troublesome being momen.
Charles Kase. engaged in painting a
building in Philadelphia, was precipi'
tated ninety feet to the ground by the
breaking OF the scaffold. His skull was
crushed.
Henry Schwartz and Newton Watt
have been Indicted at Morris, ILL.,, for
the murder last spring of Kellogg Mich
OILS. express messenger on the Rock
Island road.
Captain Samuel Samuels, whG is shap.
ing the course of the Dauntlsss through
the March gales in the race with the
CorOnet across the Atlantic, is nearly so
years of age, and has been most of his
life seafariDg man. The yatch Daunt-
less WAS built 20 years ago.
Albert Parr sixteen years old, employ
ed by Obrieg & Winter. of Wall street.
ran off with S29, $50 in money and checks
which he was sent to deposit in bank.
He met some tramps with which he
spent the cash, aud tore mp the checks
The parties nave all been arrested.
Miss Wolfe, of New York City.
hopeless invalid. owner of 100000 900
pays DIR William Todd Helmuth $4,000
year to doctor her. Mrs Alexander T.
Stewart retained three doctors at an
aggregate cost of at least $4,000, and
called in one Of them nearly every day.
At Howell, Mich, number of bust
ness houses and a row of frame dwellt
iDgs were burned. causing loss of $751;
900. The fire originated in the store of
f n Monroe, chairman of The county
prohibition party committee. Monroe
had been watned by the sa)Oon.keepers
to stop his prohibition work.
Sarah Churchman alias Schafer, the
slave girl who Mr. Beecher brought on
the platform at Plymouth church, 81
yeaI5 ago and successfully appealed to
the congregation to buy her freedom, is
said to be residing on little place near
Peekskill. N Y, " hich the ladies of Ply
mouth church bought for her.
The Sultan of Morocco has prohibited
the sale or purchase of intOxicants and
has abolished the tobacco monopoly.
The tobacco and snuff shops have been
closed, large quantities of leaf tobacco
publicly burned, and Moors have been
stripped and flogged through the streets
for smoking in defiance of the Sultan's
order.
Baltimore and Ohio people scout the
notion that their company is financially
embarrassed, though ready to consider
negotistions with the new syndicate.
1t is suggested that the city of Balti>
more will have to be consulted in any
terms that are made. From st. Louis
comes the report that the AtchisoD.
Topeka and Santa Fe is figuring for the
ownership of the great road.
Edgefeld county. C. is in a beauti+
full state, so far as the punishment of
murderers goes. There are a score of
lynchers from the best families of the
state, under indictment for murder. but
little disposition is shown to prosecute.
5 D Zimmerman, who in mischief re
Gently shot and killed negro boy, was
declared not guilty. Robert I Jones,
who killed three men in one day, got
compromise verdict of mansla1ghter.
What General Simon Cameron really
said in an interview on his SSth birth
day concerning General Lee and the
Union army was this: 1T is true that
General Robert Z. Lee was rendered the
command of the Union army. 1t was
the wish of Mr. Lincoln's administration
that as many as possible of the southern
officers then in the regular army should
remain true to the nation which edu-
Gated them. Robert E Lee and Joseph
E Johnston were then the leading south
crn soldiers. Johnston was quarter
master general and Lee a colonel of
calvary"